Former Intel employee Biswamohan Pani has been found guilty of stealing company secrets and he will have to do a three-years prison stint for it.

Pani stole chip design and manufacturing documentation that’s took an estimated $200 to $400 million to develop. Interestingly, he did so just after announcing his resignation and prior to taking a job with AMD, so we’re not sure whether to call it cunning or just plain daft.

He pleaded guilty to wire fraud back in April. He will do three years in federal prison and two year probation, in addition to a $17,500 fine. AMD claims not to have known about Pani’s plan and the company cooperated with investigators.

A former AT&T employee admitted to selling company secrets, such as sales numbers for Apple iPhone to traders who illegally bought shares on the information.

While sales figures are probably not something that should be a secret, in Apple's book Alnoor Ebrahim is the Rosenberg of the 21st century. Ebrahim is a US citizen born in Tanzania and is the latest person to plead guilty in the U.S. government's crackdown on insider trading.

Ebrahim was part of an expert-network ring where some employees of specialised firms such as Primary Global Research (PGR) helped funnel corporate secrets from consultants at companies to hedge funds. He told U.S. District Judge Paul Oetken in Manhattan that he provided insider information concerning AT&T's sales of Apple's iPhone and RIM's Blackberry products, as well as other handset set devices sold through AT&T distribution channels.

Ebrahim admitted one charge of conspiracy to commit wire and securities fraud. He is likely to face a maximum of two years in prison.

It has come to our attention that a group of disgruntled members of the unholy cult of Apple are to gather in front of company HQs in Washington, New York, San Francisco, London, Sydney and Bangalore, where they will protest worker protection strategy.

Namely, the groups will present a petition signed by 250,000 people, clamoring for worker protection strategy in Chinese factories. You may recall that worker protection in Foxconn’s factories mostly revolved around safety nets, which seems to be the best way to keep people from chucking themselves off of buildings.

The signatures were collected on Change.org and SumOfUs. Apparenlty, more than 35,000, out of 55,000 petitioners on SumOfUs, use Apple’s product. In fact, 20,000 alone are iPhone users.

Executive director of SumOfUs Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman said that he owns an iPhone and loves it, but that he doesn’t like supporting sweatshops. He added:“The hip, educated market that Apple aspires to corner is largely composed of responsible consumers who don’t want to be complicit in sweatshop labor.”

Indeed, certain reports showed that iPhones are partly built by adolescents working 16 hour days for less than a dollar per hour. Apple’s new CEO Tim Cook said that Apple takes these things seriously, but let’s not pretend that it’s down to someone’s good heart – it’s the image and the dough that matters in the end.

Petitioners claim they want specific action and detailed worker protection strategy for new releases. It is said that most of these suicides occur exactly at that time, due to immense pressures to get things done in time.

And the planet rejoiced in this act of good will. Well fine then, that covers iPhones - now how about clothes, footwear, vehicles, weapons and the rest?

This year's bravest employee has to be the US bloke who is trying to form a union in the fruity cargo cult Apple.

America does not do unions very well. They are seen as communist agitators and sometimes just gangsters, which they have been. For this reason attempts from workers to form a union have been frowned on by the outfit.

Cory Moll, a part-time employee at an Apple store in San Francisco, is working to form a union to fight for better wages and benefits and to address what he says are unfair practices. Moll’s campaign is also unusual given Apple’s reputation for fierce employee loyalty. People don't join the company because they are making Steve Jobs rich at their expense. They join it because it is part of their religion.

Moll, who has been working at Apple for four years, said he makes $14 an hour at the San Francisco Apple store. The minimum wage for 2011 in San Francisco, one of the most expensive cities in the United States, is $9.92 an hour.

Moll admits that he has received little support from his comrades so far, though he said he has emails expressing support. He just wants to get people talking about it. We wonder how long he will remain working for Jobs' Mob anyway.

Former IBM executive Robert Moffat has been jailed for six months in jail for his part in a major insider trading scheme. U.S. District Court in Manhattan fined him $50,000 after serving his jail time, which is due to begin on June 11 of 2011.

The former Biggish Blue boss admitted to revealing insider information about IBM, Lenovo, and AMD to New Castle Funds consultant Danielle Chiesi, who he was having a fling with. The crime allegedly spread to 12 other people, in two related insider-trading schemes, including Raj Rajaratnam, founder of hedge fund Galleon Group.

Apparently there was a lot of cash being made in information regarding Intel, Google, IBM, and AMD. Sheesh they should have just read Fudzilla.